I don't really care about legacy realms. I Started in wrath, but do I wish to go back and stay on wrath content forever? No. I got enough of raiding wrath content and doing wrath content when it was relevant and around for several years. Besides, they said no. They would all join the servers, then leave when it got boring, which it did and will. Everyone will play the most op class at the time the realm is set too. People quit because they get bored at the end of an expansion. Its how my guild is still trying to rebuild. Legacy realms won't be a reality. It would be nothing more then a phase. Everyone would love it and play on it for a few months. Then when they realize Nothing will ever change on that realm, they will quit.

What draw is there for raiders? Raid naxx, then ulduar, then ToC, then ICC. Then what? Raid ICC every week indefinite? What about the PvPers? No change in balance. Ever. No adjustments in numbers. Just the same class being the top every season from start to finish. What about the daily people? That is the only ones who would be happy. Bottom line, the server will end up the same way as the expansion does. Empty and boring with no appeal to anyone but newer players just seeing it for the first time.

People would lose interest shortly after they discovered there were no new patches (ever,) classes were completely out of balance, and the servers had absolutely no contemporary upkeep.

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As much as you might like this idea, Blizzard has said on more than one occasion, they are moving forward, not going backward. offering legacy realms is exactly that, moving backwards. And, I'm of the opinion that it will last about as long as a FOTM class/spec does... when the novelity wears off (long before the cost of creating the servers is recouped) you'll either quit or come back to reality.

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I think all the nostalgia monkeys would flock to it screaming 'Vanilla WoW! Oh my beautiful, untainted, pandaless vanilla WoW!' play for about 10min and realize how shallow, unbalanced and 'this isn't actually as awesome as I remembered' it is.

Not that it matters. This is something that is never, ever happening. Blizz has said that time and time again. Why there are so many topics about something they are never going to do (they've stated emphatically 'no, never') is beyond me.

Legacy servers should be an option. Honestly, there are dozens of realms they could probably merge already because they're underpopulated. Merge the shit realms and start up legacy realms in their place.

Obviously I don't think a TON of people would go to the legacy realms if they existed. I mean it wouldn't be millions or anything, the current servers (whatever current was) would be by far the most popular.

However legacy realms COULD be profitable. You could setup a small number of each and have it be known there is no support, no patches, no GM's, or anything for it. So you wouldn't have much overhead cost.

Even if you only got a few hundred thousand on each of the legacy realms and charged them $10 a month or something, surely that's more profitable than having a bunch of ex-subscribers not paying anything.

People wouldn't play these servers long term, but I mean even if everyone just came back for 3-6 months to get their nostaligia fix, WoW has many many many millions of ex players and that represents a ton of revenue potentially.

I know Blizzard has said they won't do it, but if the demand for it grows I wouldn't be surprised at one day it becoming a possibility.

Which patch would the servers operate on? Would people have new talents or old? Would warriors still be the only viable tanks? When would new patches be released? What would happen after the final patch had been released, would servers start over?

Which patch would the servers operate on? Would people have new talents or old? Would warriors still be the only viable tanks? When would new patches be released? What would happen after the final patch had been released, would servers start over?

As I'm picturing, and as would probably be easiest and cheapest for Blizzard, the legacy realms would exists EXACTLY as the game was as of a particularly patch level (which patch it is you could debate, the final path? Start with the earliest patch and release the next one every so often, etc.)

But Blizzard would clearly not want to devote any "new" development time to old code. Thus everything would be as it was, talents, professions, quests, all as they were on that patch level.